Biden has ended ban over transgenders ban joining U.S. military
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that reverses the Trump administration’s ban on transgender troops joining the U.S. military.
Biden signed the order Monday, which sets the policy that all Americans who are qualified to serve in the Armed Forces of the United States should be able to serve.
BREAKING: President Biden has ended the ban on transgender military service set in place under the Trump administration.
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President Joe Biden passed an executive order on his first day, protecting LGBTQ+ people from employment, housing, and medical discrimination. The move has a clause that reverses Trump’s definition of gender as the one you were assigned at birth. In the coming weeks, Biden’s team says, he will also overturn Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military.
The order includes a clause that scraps former President Donald Trump’s legal definition of gender as “biological sex,” or the gender someone was assigned at birth.
In the “coming weeks,” the White House said Biden also plans to overturn the transgender military ban put in place in 2017 by former President Donald Trump.
What’s more, within hours of taking office, the White House contact sheet was updated to ask for people’s pronouns, giving the options she, he, they, and other.
